I actually really liked
Hatchet in 7th grade. The teacher was so surprised by the class's adoration for the book, that he got the sequel on tape and played it for the class since we couldn't get everyone a book.
I had to read and dissect MacBeth 4 times (9th-12th grade!) that when we started doing Shakespear senior year (12th), our teacher said "Alright class, we're going to read 2 Shakespeare plays. Othello, and..."
"Please not Macbeth!" I spoke out.
She looked at me curiously, "uh, one of them is Macbeth..."
"Awe man, can I just like take a test on it and skip it? I've read it every year for English for the past 3 years!"
"Sorry, you have to follow along."
"hrmph"
That aside, It is probably my favorite Shakespeare play, I just don't want to read it ever again. The funny thing is, everyone else in my class had not read it yet, so guess who everyone wanted to team up with during group assignments?
Our group was told to do a research assignment on castles. A few of my team mates were really good at video editing (mind you this was 2004!) so we did a film project. We filmed some footage at Fort Washington since its the closest thing we had to a castle near by to use for shots. One of the group members had a crazy idea of dressing up as a deviled egg and running at the fort wall and throwing himself on the wall as a means to defeat the castle. We filmed the whole thing, even had a lead up to it of a girl in our group dressed as a princess and yours truly as a sword wielding energetic general screaming "Send in the Deviled Eggs!" The Devil Egg group member, Ryan, ran down the hill and 2 paces from the fort wall (during editing they played some heavy metal in the background as he screamed his battle cry during the whole run), faux tripped and acted like he scraped his knee, doing the family guy bit seen
here. He then picked himself up and limped over to the fort wall and threw himself against it.
Another part of the video talked about how the Hittites were the first known to build walls around their cities. The thing is the group members were convinced it was pronounced Hit-tittes rather than hit-tite-s. So we got our head shaved group member ,Scooter, to wear a stuffed bra and I ran into frame and slapped his boob and giggled off screen. It then cut back to Scooter saying "no, not those hit-tittes, the Hittittes were a blah blah blah." It went over well in class.
And the final crazy thing we did was show a beheading by having one person (someone who wasn't even in our class anymore) dress up as an executioner with a dragon axe he got from the Renaissance faire. Ryan then put a hoodie on and placed his head on a stump. We played some creepy medival monk chanting music a shot reverse shot of them before having him scoot his head into his hoodie and placing a pumpkin where is head was and then performing the execution by cutting the dragon axe into the pumpkin.
We got an A+ on the project and the teacher started referring to us as the crazy castle group. It was good times.
